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DescriptionHubble PSF with flawed optics.jpg
English: The star Melnick 34 as imaged by Hubble Space Telescope's first Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-1). The advantages of working in space above Earth's distorting atmosphere are immediately apparent. Atmospheric blurring is gone and many more stars are visible.
However, the effects of the Hubble Telescope's spherical aberration also are apparent. In particular there is a four arc second diameter 'skirt' around the bright star which obscures the view of the sky in its vicinity.
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2005-06-05 01:00 Worldtraveller 194×182×8 (27830 bytes) Hubble Space Telescope stellar image showing light spread over a wide area instead of concentrated on a few pixels as planned. {{PD-USGov-NASA}}
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Der Stern Melnick 34, aufgenommen von der ersten Weitfeld- und Planetenkamera des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops (WFPC-1)